Evaluation and Social Work Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761957936 ISBN 13: 9780761957935

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Evaluation and Social Work Practice offers a comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work that links theory and method to practical applications.

Evaluation is an integral part of social work and social care provision, for both practice and service delivery. Evaluation can improve effectiveness and increase accountability and help develop new models of practice and service delivery. The authors argue that evaluation should not just be applied to practice but should be a direct dimension of practice.

Appealing to the student, researcher and practitioner, Evaluation and Social Work Practice will become the standard reference source on evaluation in social work.

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About this title

About the Authors

Dr. Ian Shaw is S R Nathan Professor of Social Work at National University of Singapore and Professor Emeritus at the University of York, England. He was the first chair of the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA) and a founder editor of the journal Qualitative Social Work. He has authored almost 100 peer-reviewed papers, more than 20 books, 60 book chapters, and various research reports. He has written extensively in the journals on issues arising from the relationship between social work and sociology over the last century. His more recent books include Social Work Science (2016) and Research and the Social Work Picture (2018). He is pursuing a graduate programme in creative writing, which sits alongside his interests in gardening, his local church, volunteering in his village shop, playing badminton (badly), and Bob Dylan.

Professor Joyce Lishman is now retired, and was previously Head of the School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. She was also General Editor of the Research Highlights in Social Work series for many years.

From the Back Cover

`The authors are obviously experts in their respective fields and they conduct competent and readable overviews of their topics.... [their work] would make an excellent text for graduate research students seeking an overview of various contemporary philosophies of science and their derivative methodologies.' - British Journal of Social WorkEvaluation and Social Work Practice provides a comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work that links theory and method to practical applications.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761957936
• ISBN 13: 9780761957935
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Ian Shaw, Joyce Lishman